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This book is a phantasmagoria of brilliant fantasy, philosophy and steampunkery. Miéville paints with some of the most carefully crafted language and semantics I've ever seen. His word choices are extraordinary...psoriatic instead of flaking, cossetted instead of enclosed...his prose is poetry.
Acknowledged by the author, and obvious to anyone who has ever been exposed to that classic of fantasy fiction, is Perdido Street Station's debt to Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast. Both Miéville's New Crobuzon ...more
Acknowledged by the author, and obvious to anyone who has ever been exposed to that classic of fantasy fiction, is Perdido Street Station's debt to Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast. Both Miéville's New Crobuzon ...more
As with all Miéville books Perdido features an absolutely unique and fantastically crafted world, unfortunately the story, pacing and characters didn't live up to this high standard.
I absolutely loved the books setting, which feels like something from Pratchett but taken seriously with "scientific" explanation for why everything works the way it does it this world. Outside the setting though it's a very different story.
The book is long, and while there is something to be said for the unique, de ...more
I absolutely loved the books setting, which feels like something from Pratchett but taken seriously with "scientific" explanation for why everything works the way it does it this world. Outside the setting though it's a very different story.
The book is long, and while there is something to be said for the unique, de ...more
Sep 30, 2016
Erik
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SpyNavy
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Nov 20, 2012
Ron
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May 09, 2014
Justin
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Eric
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